I would like to know how many idle sitting deep water drilling rigs are in the GOM that can be put on station withing a week or two to start a massive drilling effort to reduce the pressure.
I keep seeing a plan to use every resource our country has to urgently pump off as much crude oil as fast as possible regardless of OPEC, store in in any safe manner possible.
Speaking of OPEC I bet they have some interesting thoughts lately.
There are currently two drilling rigs drilling relief wells, a rig tied up with the recovery effort and a platform burning off oil and gas recovered from the choke line on the BOP. That's four major vessels in the immediate vicinity of the wellhead, not counting the support vessels, crew and supply boats. It's a pretty crowded patch of water now when you consider maneuverability of larger vesssels, add in a storm and there isn't much room for error.
Speaking of OPEC I bet they have some interesting thoughts lately.
Well, Hugo stole H&P's rigs ("nationalized" them)....